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luCllang nigra. Natural Order: J iighindacav —Wahnit Family. 



EUS PATER 1 Father Zeus), through the first syllable of 

 the Latin equivalent Jupiter, enters into the formation of the 

 botanical name of this valuable tree, Juglans meaning Jove's 

 icorn; and the walnut is certainly not unworthy of the dis- 

 liiiction. In growth it is a majestic forest tree, rising very 

 ^^ tiequently to the height of eighty teet, and is always a 

 pleasing object to the eye. The wood of the Black Walnut is very 

 extensively used in cabinet work and in building. It is very close 

 grained and heavy, and when freshly sawed it is of a deep violet 

 color. It takes a very good poHsh, and assumes a brownish tone 

 after being dressed, and looks not incongruous either when uphol- 

 stered in the richest of fabrics or placed amid the commonest sur- 

 roundings. The nuts are of a rather flattened globose shape, and 

 the removal of the outward husk exposes the inner shell, which is very rough 

 on the surface. 



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PORERUN thy peers, thy time, and let 



Thy feet, milleniums hence, be set 

 In midst of knowledge dreamed not yet. 



p ETIR'D thoughts enjoy their own dcliglits. 



As beauty doth in self-beholding eye; 

 Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights, 

 A brief wherein all miracles scumm'd lie, 

 Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store, 

 Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more 

 — Smitlmell. 



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IE mind of man is this world's true dimension ; 



And knowledge is the measure of the mind : 

 And as the mind in her vast comprehension 

 Contains more worlds than all the world can find, 

 So knowledge doth itself far more extend 

 Than all the minds of man can comprehend. 



-Lord Brooke. 



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yRISE, my drowsing soul! 



Gird on thy blazing arms of intellect! 

 One struggle more to master coming time; 

 And if thy earthly walls then fall consumed, 



We "11 scale those heights where conquering time is not. 



H. Boker. 



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